Prologue:
( 2100 to 2125 )
Earth was in the midst of wars with the remnants of nexus.
The climate changes that came about were a bigger threat to
humanity than nexus ever was... and they were getting worse
by the year... Earth was dying and in some areas already
dead. The Project had received a coded burst transmission,
that did not originate from earth... subsequent
transmissions, in most cases scrambled by interference,
appeared to come from a source in the general vicinity of
Mars... World leaders decided to investigate the feasibility
of traveling to mars with available technology ( hyper
transport ) to establish a base with forward thought to
eventually colonize that planet. Of the 6 transports sent
only 4 reached their destination,
( the whereabouts of
the 2 ships that did not arrive are another story for a
later time ) to land and establish a
beach head. 2 transports remained on mars while the last 2
returned to earth on a resupply mission and to start the
process of colonization - all went well for 6 months...
(For 6
months the exploration team has been setting up and
reinforcing its original landing area - now the question is
how do we work that into the story...)
Without warning a total loss of signal from earth
heralded the beginning of a new and more deadly crisis .
When your supply line was as stretched as this one, you had
to make do with whatever was on hand - and at times that was
very little - the supply ships had stopped. The mars
exploration team had received enough supplies and equipments
to last 3 years, and to start the process of colonization,
now they would have to last indefinitely. The team were of a
cross section of humanity, the most brilliant, strong willed
and hardy, now had to survive on supplies that were only
intended to last until restocked by the next ship due. This
will not happen any time soon, if ever.
The last supply ships had, just before they returned to
earth, dropped off some very new technology, unproven in
such a hostile environment, which was all that was standing
between survival and death. With the discovery of the
Synaptic Link Technology in 2080 - droids had become
increasingly used for the most dangerous and thankless jobs.
Cyber Engineering Droids were developed for hostile
environments... able to survive in areas that would cripple
lesser machines. Along with the new droid units came the
factory units to produce either droids or farming vehicles.
The Commanders saw this capability of the factory units and
quickly turned plowshares into swords. The first units came
off the assembly line shortly thereafter based on the Cyber
Engineer chassis.
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Chapter One:
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2128 - Challenges of
Survival.
No one said this was going to be easy - with the constant
attacks on our position and the unknown entities slavish
attitude towards our total annihilation as well as the lack
of resources to power our equipment, just another fun filled
day here on mars. Our sensors detected as we came in a
series of resource areas. how hard it will be to extract
remains to be seen, just getting there will take a concerted
effort... still wonder who's brilliant idea this was...
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Olympus Mons area:
log entry 1:
- build and re-enforce the beach head...
- set up and maintain Dustoff
pads with Laser AA emplacements for Recon / Defensive Vtol
units
- New structure on line - now able to produce Cyber
Engineering and Repair units -
Technology brought by exploration team to be set up as
needed / required.
- Search for and find a way to utilize resources -
still need to find a reliable source of power that is not
oil or nuke based - possible wind or solar power? mineral
deposits?
Log entry 2:
- Attacked by a group of unknown entities today.
( story line concerning the UE is being worked on - see the
4 part series of conversations... will have to develop that
as well - flashback sort of to the past - where a
(crashed?) lander is discovered by other exploring
individuals - who upgrade the original to sentience and then
are killed off by a bacterium that lay in the inner
workings... (2007? to 2125 - 118 years to be specific -
should be ample time for a viral bacterium to eradicate
biologicals no matter from what world.)
- drove them off - Heavy casualties among the
( units to be announced later - possible non
armoured flesh types... as well as our own units that will
be made for this mod)
- From the parts and pieces left of the
enemy units - discovered new technology - will analyze and
incorporate to produce new units.
- New unit - LOS Rapid fire Chain Gun on new chassis ( LAC25
- coded - Coyote ) ;) - Based on cyber
engineer chasis - light armoured - fast - small armament -
strong sensor - ideal recon vehicle.
Log entry 3:
- New units able to survive multiple hits.
- New units - Rapid fire rail gun type... Rapid fire Scourge
Missile rack ( auto loading )
- New structure on line - able to produce aircraft for
scouting and defensive craft
- Search for resources successful - found several areas that
contained (( resource needs to
be identified yet as it is doubtfull that oil exists on
mars )) just south - south west of our
Landing Zone...
- Entity attacks continue to plague our toehold on this
unforgiving planet.
Continued :